Topic: Home Page Listings

Well, you've done a great job trying to accommodate all our wishes--the lists of new works include more now, but I still have that feeling. Some categories fill up rapidly with new works, and they disappear from the postings within a few hours. That means if I'm busy for a day, I miss out on some things. (Yes, I know they're available, but I usually don't look--call me human.) On the other hand, some categories remain unchanged for lack of new postings, and they remain on the home page day after day, even though I've read them all and given them a review.
Can't we just have one big list of new postings, with the posting date and genre designated? There is an advantage to mixing them up--many times I was attracted to read something outside my comfort zone, and found new interests and new friends. I met dagnee by reading her blog!
Please consider placing all new postings on one big list, and let them roll over on the same time line--I think the current list is a disservice to the authors whose works disappear in the blink of an eye.
JP

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2 Reply by Norm d'Plume (edited by Norm d'Plume 2015-08-22 21:01:17)

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Although I'm open to this, I suspect other users have grown accustomed to grouping works by type. One possibility is to make the home page configurable so that a user can choose which way they want it displayed. Another option is for the system to remember which new work we last read and provide a count on the home page next to each"more" button showing how many new works we haven't read of each type.

One related request is to modify the "more" screens to use the small images rather than the big ones. That makes it easier to scan the list of works.

Regards,
Dirk

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A third option is to provide a button on the home page that takes you to All Works. Obviously, that still requires an extra click, so I'm not sure if it would make things easier.

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Yeah!

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There's a big blue button at the bottom of the listings that bring you to a list of all content posted in the way you are speaking. It says Read More New Content from Your Groups.

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cobber wrote:

There's a big blue button at the bottom of the listings that bring you to a list of all content posted in the way you are speaking. It says Read More New Content from Your Groups.


I tried it, Cobber, but it doesn't do what I meant--it will give me all the poems ever written, or all the essays, etc. one genre at a a time, and it's not timely. Here's where I have to mention the old site.
Every day, all the newest postings were listed, with the most recent at the top of the list. book, poem, essay, short story, whatever--one by one they appeared at the top of the list. When a new work was posted, the one at the bottom dropped to page 2, and so on. Everybody's work got the same amount of exposure, with author, genre, and pertinent details all on one line. The title was a link to the actual work, so one could read and review.
If you check some categories, you'll see there are works posted in January still prominently displayed on your home page. That's an unfair amount of exposure, considering there are other categories whose postings roll off in a matter of hours.
Just my opinion.  JP

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7 Reply by Norm d'Plume (edited by Norm d'Plume 2015-08-23 19:43:33)

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Ideally, JP's style of list should be available at the click of one button (at most) located near the top of the home page, rather than the bottom. Scrolling for it is annoying. The button at the bottom that Cobber is referring to takes me to a listing of all books in my groups, not all writing. I'm not sure if that's specific to me. And the pictures on those pages are so large, it takes forever to scroll through them. The old site managed to get it down to one line per published work, which was great for scanning at a glance, like a spreadsheet. If the pictures are a must-have, use the small ones, like on the home page.

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I tried it, Cobber, but it doesn't do what I meant--it will give me all the poems ever written, or all the essays, etc. one genre at a a time, and it's not timely. Here's where I have to mention the old site.
Every day, all the newest postings were listed, with the most recent at the top of the list. book, poem, essay, short story, whatever--one by one they appeared at the top of the list. When a new work was posted, the one at the bottom dropped to page 2, and so on. Everybody's work got the same amount of exposure, with author, genre, and pertinent details all on one line. The title was a link to the actual work, so one could read and review.
If you check some categories, you'll see there are works posted in January still prominently displayed on your home page. That's an unfair amount of exposure, considering there are other categories whose postings roll off in a matter of hours.
Just my opinion.  JP

This is exactly how the site works now. The homepage on the new site is exactly like the homepage on the old site except we have added a few more categories: essay, article, etc. The Read: Groups Content from the Read tab brings you to a page that has the identical logic to the old Read page. Work is listed in order added to your groups regardless of genre or type.

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Ideally, JP's style of list should be available at the click of one button (at most) located near the top of the home page, rather than the bottom. Scrolling for it is annoying. The button at the bottom that Cobber is referring to takes me to a listing of all books in my groups, not all writing. I'm not sure if that's specific to me. And the pictures on those pages are so large, it takes forever to scroll through them. The old site managed to get it down to one line per published work, which was great for scanning at a glance, like a spreadsheet. If the pictures are a must-have, use the small ones, like on the home page.

You may have a search term selected which is just causing books to appear but that page shows all content. It is exactly the same logic as the Read page on the old site, which the page you are referring to. This is the same page that everyone told me no one reads since people just look at the homepage. You don't know the number of times this came up in a thread: increase the visibility on the homepage because no one reads the Read page!

I have people that love the images and people who  don't like them and want a spreadsheet list. People who like bigger images and people who like smaller  images. It's really interesting to see how different people respond so differently to design.

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10 Reply by j p lundstrom (edited by j p lundstrom 2015-08-24 03:31:36)

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Sol--Thanks ever so much. I knew it had been discussed numerous time, I just wasn't sure how it had been dealt with. I think I was directed to the page before, after another dumb question of mine. All I have to do is set the search parameters to all, all, and all, and there it is! My apologies. (But I still think it would be easier if I didn't have to go looking for it.) Is there a way to set it permanently?
I'll go check.  JP

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The default is all, so if you clear the search parameters this is what you will see. You can clear the search by clicking the Reset button.

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12 Reply by j p lundstrom (edited by j p lundstrom 2015-11-02 19:22:10)

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How do I know to go looking for new book postings if I can't see that there are new postings? Or poems--those go by in the blink of an eye. Short stories seem to run in phases, like spooky stories for Halloween, but they sometimes get stuck on the home page forever. Mrs. Piddles posted an article on October 11, but the one before that was posted July 16--three whole months! Of the five essays that remain on my home page, two were posted in July, and three date from March--hardly new works. And in the year and a half I've been a member, I've only seen one script posted, and yay! I'm all for script-writing, love to do it myself, one day, but it's been there since July seventh, and likely to remain there, since we don't see many of those. My whole home page is being taken up by things I've already read, except for the ones that zoom by so fast, I miss them. And that can happen in a day. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE let's group everything together and tag it with its form and genre, let all roll by at a fair rate of speed, and stop crowding the front page with old news.

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